Silhouette Intimate Moments #753: Second Father

Since the review below has given a good description of the book - there's not much i can add - apart from.. that the Hero in this book had all the characteristics of a true Hero. There was none of the usual emotional blackmail, emotional baggage that is in other books - that the heroine always seems to get to suffer for. Well worth a read! (Note: her book Temporary Family did have the h's taking on the punishment for the Hero's past, the book is still readable though and Homecoming is a good book as well. Because her Heroine's had painful pasts i felt that they deserved the type of Hero she had managed to create in Second Father)

From the back...Police Detective Marc Dalton had always secretly loved his best friend's wife. Now Ginny was his best friend's widow and trying to raise her baby alone amidst the troubling allegations surrounding her husband's death. Knowing he could no longer stand by in silence, Marc decided to offer Ginny his help...and his heart.Ginny had always seen Marc as a friend-a waonderful man who should already have settled down with a wife and children. But now Marc was confessing he'd always been crazy about her, that he wanted to be a second father to her little girl. How could Ginny resist such a tempting offer? How could she betray her memories and succumb to another man's embrace?In my Opinion...This book starts off with the scene where an officer gets killed in the previous book 'Temporary Family'. The officer that gets killed is Joe-Ginny's husband and Marc's partner. Detective Marc Dalton is the one that shows up at Ginny's doorstep to tell her that her husband is dead. Almost a year later, Ginny is raising a daughter alone, a daughter that her husband never knew about. Ginny was crushed when her husband was killed and the only thing that kept her going was her pregnancy and then the arrival of her daughter Hannah. But, now she has time to start asking questions and she wants to know what happened to Joe. She turns to the one person that she knew she could trust, her childhood friend, Marc. Marc is also asking questions about his partners death. Marc is being pressured by Internal Affairs to find out whether or not Joe was a dirty cop. Marc has always loved Ginny and has fallen in love with her daughter as well. To Joe's family's dismay, Marc and Ginny start spending a lot of time together. Ginny feels guilty, but her feelings for Marc are to strong to be denied. As they get closer to the truth, regarding Joe's death, the more danger that they are in. Fortunatly, for Ginny and Hannah, they have a man like Marc on their side. I really enjoyed this book. Everything was there, from Ginny's guilt over having feelings for another man (not to mention that he was her husband's partner), to the pressure from her dead husband's family, to the real bond that develops between Ginny, Hannah, and Marc. I highly recommend this book and the next book by Sally Tyler Hayes, 'Wife, Mother...Lover' which is the story of Marc's new partner Mitch.